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...Some 15,000 black people were estimated to live in the city in 1772, and both Reynolds and his friend, the literary wit Samuel Johnson, had black servants....
...Austen’s four great heroines, DeForest and Johnson point out, are closest in speech to Austen herself. They speak for her....
...This after all is the woman who wrote of her infant daughter Fanny: “I dread to unfold her mind, lest it should render her unfit for the world she is to inhabit.”...
...At the centre of The Club was the literary giant Samuel Johnson, and the man who immortalised his words of wisdom: Johnson’s biographer, the prolific diarist, drunkard and philanderer James Boswell....
...Elsewhere, she is on solid ground when she draws on examples from her own research, with illuminating portraits of Woodrow Wilson (one of the chief subjects of her 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize-winner Peacemakers...
...Thanks to “the father of the booktrade” Joseph Johnson, she was the first woman in England to live off a publisher’s retainer....
...… Jane, the Fox and Me, by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Walker Books, RRP£15 Hélène is a lonely, bullied schoolgirl who draws consolation from Jane Eyre....
...What emerges from his studiously documented book is how much the bill’s success depended on backroom dealmaking in Congress as well as the support of President Lyndon Johnson and civil rights leader Martin...
...She watched the Czech runner Emil Zátopek staggering round as the crowd chanted his name, and saw Holland’s Fanny Blankers-Koen, “The Flying Housewife”, beat three of her British team mates to gold medals...
...(For example, would the real Fanny have been quite as clever as the film version?)...
...They record that in many respects he treated women as equals, and encouraged the literary ambitions of the young Fanny Burney....
...Fanny Trollope published Domestic Manners of the Americans, her first of more than 40 books, at the age of 52. That was from financial necessity. Her husband had died and she had a family to support....
...Ominously enough, given the recent death of Leavander Johnson, Merchant would later explain that Americans expect their heavyweights to be willing to die in the ring....
...They separate, leaving her with a child, Fanny. One of the most important relationships of her life, with the political philosopher William Godwin, begins in 1796....
...Locals have dubbed it "Fanny by Gaslight"....
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